A while back a discussion was ongoing about phantom folks in the data base. I discovered a bunch of phantoms that arrived on a downloaded GEDCOM from the internet. I discovered them when I did a Marriage List report and found better than half of the first page was blank. Oops. Looked around for a while and couldn't find any way to identify them but they were there. Finally double clicked on one of them and was taken to the Family View screen showing a child and blank parents. One of the blank parent fields was highlighted (depending on which one you double clicked on from the marriage list screen). The fix is to select the child and then edit>unlink> from parents and hit enter. Phantoms disappear also entry on Marriage List. One thing in common with all the events was as soon as I made the phantom parents disappear, the child showed up as a marriage partner (legitimate, so no problem) and was no longer showed as a child as the parent screen had disappeared. Theory on how this happened. Try it if you want to. On a GEDCOM download, you select the person you want, then ancestors or descendants. What I think happens is you get the descendants and spouses but the parents of the spouse are made into phantoms and come along. Whether you have a marriage fact doesn't matter. I had both Y and N in the column indicating whether or not a marriage fact was created. Bottom line. No big deal but one might want to consider taking the whole GEDCOM if possible and not try to just take a person with either ancestors or descendants. This might not be possible but if you get phantoms, at least this outlines one way of finding and exorcising them. I run FO 10.0 with Windows XP (Home). Merry Christmas to all who don't mind reference to Christmas and Happy Holidays to the rest and a Happy New Year to everyone. Ron Mitchell.